Writers and practitioners of the early twentieth century schools of scientific management, administrative management and bureaucratic organization, who looked for the efficient design of work and the organization. A person belongs here when the cited article ties them to scientific management, general administration or the theory of bureaucracy. It excludes later behavioral, quality and strategy thinkers. The figures here wrote between the late nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth, and their ideas about division of labor, authority and planning still underlie organization charts today.
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Wikipedia, Frederick Winslow Taylor
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In 1909, Taylor summed up his efficiency techniques in his book The Principles of Scientific Management which, in 2001, Fellows of the Academy of Management voted the most influential management book of the twentieth century.
Wikipedia, Henri Fayol
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Henri Fayol (29 July 1841-19 November 1925) was a French mining engineer, mining executive, author and director of mines who developed a general theory of business administration that is often called Fayolism.
Wikipedia, Max Weber
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Weber continued his investigation into rationalisation in later works, notably in his studies on bureaucracy and the classification of legitimate authority into three ideal types, rational-legal, traditional, and charismatic, of which rational-legal was the dominant one in modernity.
Chester Barnard (Wikipedia)
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Chester Irving Barnard (November 7, 1886, June 7, 1961) was an American business executive, public administrator, and the author of pioneering work in management theory and organizational studies.
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